Crossroads for a Promise Unfulfilled
How should I atone for not keeping my promise to my deceased friend?
How should I atone for not keeping my promise to my deceased friend?
I endeavor to become the container for the anxiety, fear, and grief of my community members, while I test the limits of my own endurance.
What strange new life forms might grow from the breaking down of old models and structures of change-making?
How do I give my children a childhood that feels safe when it feels like so much tragedy presses in on us from all sides?
Sometimes, simply just being is enough for God, and more than enough for the people we love.
We teach our children how to face death not by what we say, but by how we live—and by how we die.
What if true wisdom were never about arriving at the right answers, but instead about cultivating the right postures?
Sometimes, our life reveals messengers who have something important to tell us.
Maybe now is the time to take a different approach. Instead of looking at others in judgment, we could try looking honestly at ourselves.
We don’t have to whitewash harm or pretend it didn’t happen to make room for healing.